The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A planning application for 32 homes in Penny Hill Road has been passed despite anger from councillors.
Ashwood Homes previously had permission for 26 affordable homes on the site built alongside a football academy.
However the newly passed application is for 32 dwellings of which just eight are affordable and the rest to be sold at market value.
South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee previously deferred the application over concerns over waste disposal and highway.
The committee’s chairman Roger Gambba-Jones said of the previous application: “Not only did it deliver a football academy it delivered affordable housing and to use that with a stick to beat us with is disappointing.”
Coun Michael Seymour said: “It’s a hoodwinked job to get houses in that area outside the boundaries.
“They said they would build affordable and now won’t supply them. I think that’s a very bad move.”
Coun Harry Drury moved the recommendation be passed: “It’s regrettable the site isn’t affordable however I do understand we live in a world where things cost money and it’s got to be viable for a builder to build.
“They’re not going to do it for any other reason than to make a profit.
“The developer has listened to us, he’s come back and made appropriate changes and made the site work for the company.”
Ashwood Homes was also granted permission at the same planning committee meeting on Wednesday, November 14 to build 47 homes at Crease Drove in Crowland in another application that had previously been deferred over concerns over parking and wast collection.
